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Originally Posted by filtherton
Ustwo on hezbollah and the palestinians: Only an antisemitic liberal wouldn't acknowledge that hezbollah is deceptive and the mainstream media is complicit.
Ustwo on the bush administration: Only a cut-and-run liberal would imply that the bush administration might engage in deception. Only a naive liberal would believe that a credible mainstream media has a responsibility to question obvious falsehoods cheney et al put forth.
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Quoted for truth. Ustwo, if you're going to insist on damning the Hezbollah or Palestinians for deceptive media tactis, and insist that the current administration can get away with it, you should simply admit your bias to the world and yourself. Admit your agenda. Admit your favoritism to one side, and admit your intolerance to the other.
Ustwo, the Hezbollah are equatable with the US exept for a few things: The US sits comfortably far away from the middle east madness, the US has a massive military, and the US has massive economic influence.
If Hezbollah has those things, do you really think they'd be firing rockets from fields and towns? Or do yo think they'd do what the US government does: plant warships far out in the ocean and fire rockets?
If Palestinians had a large military, do you think there would be suicide bombings? Or do you think they'd do what the US government does: invade unilaterally and remove the government? That is where the equasion reaches equlibrium.
The US thought that Iraq was a danger to Middle Easten investments, so we removed the dangerous government. The Hezbollah knows that Israel has been occupying Lebanon for 24 years (that's longer than I've been alive) and they know thousands of Lebanese citizens have been kidnapped by Israel (durring the 18 year occupation), so they continue to resist Israel and do everything in their means to remove Israel from Lebanon.